Tuesday, April 30, 2013

While I’m busy wrapping up my new book Keywords to Unlock Chiron, I have a homeplay assignment for you.
That’s an alternative to homework. It’s voluntary and much more fun, though you
might catch some serious insights.

The object of this game is to take 15 minutes, twice a week during
the month of May, to get a better understanding of the major planets in your
astrology chart and how they work for you. The goal is to strengthen your
self-understanding and to give you a new perspective on your chart and the
archetypal energies that drive it.

I suggest you create a folder in your computer and use your
word processing program to highlight and copy the “assignments.” As you answer
them, you’ll be building a self-interpretation of your chart. Finding answers
yourself is a powerful way to learn.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man
to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.~ Chinese Proverb

As the proverb goes, I’m offering a few fishing lessons per
planet. Even if you're already a "good angler" and know your aspects and chart fairly well, you'll be surprised the added dimension you'll get from these simple exercises. For a commitment of approximately 30 minutes a week for a month or 2.5
hours total, you’ll come back with a net full of aha’s—and hopefully
you’ll share some of them with the Radical Virgo community in the Comments so
we can see your figurative “big catch.”

The exercises are designed to take just a short time per
planet, but you can extend that if you really “get into it.” It’s your choice
how deep or shallow you want to go into the channel to fish and how long you
want to stay out.

To sweeten the trip, anyone who comments during this May
planetary fishing expedition will be entered into a drawing for a free copy of
my e-book, Astrology 101 Primer: How to
Interpret Your Astrology Chart. It's great for beginners and a compact reference for ongoing students of astrology. It also makes a great gift, if you're trying to help someone important in your life learn the language of astrology for everyday conversation with you. The winner will be announced on or about
June 1.

Happy Fishing!

Joyce

PS – With 5 weeks in May, the posts will begin on May 1 and
run on Wednesday and Friday the first week. The remainder of the weeks, the
posts will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

It's Astro-Poetry month on The Radical Virgo!Watch for poems that preview Earth to Sky: Astrology Based Blessings, Prayers, Poems and Meditations throughout April 2013. For more poetry, visit Stitched Verse.

It's Astro-Poetry month on The Radical Virgo!Watch for poems that preview Earth to Sky: Astrology Based Blessings, Prayers, Poems and Meditations throughout April 2013. For more poetry, visit Stitched Verse.

It's Astro-Poetry month on The Radical Virgo!Watch for poems that preview Earth to Sky: Astrology Based Blessings, Prayers, Poems and Meditations throughout April 2013. For more poetry, visit Stitched Verse.

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Joyce Mason has Sun in the last degree of Virgo, three planets in Libra, Taurus Rising and a Capricorn Moon. She's a "PUNC," or a person with a prominence of the outer planets Pluto, Uranus, Neptune--add bridging and healing Chiron. (See her Outerplanetary People series for more on PUNCs.) Joyce is often mistaken for an Aquarius/ Sagittarius blend. Even if you don’t speak astrology, that makes sense on some symbolic level because they both end in “ius.” She believes that I and Us are one in the same—and celebrates the human spirit in which we’re all joined.

First and foremost a writer, Joyce was a consulting astrologer, tarot reader, dreamworker, and flower essence practitioner for 25 years. Her astrological specialties are the sign of Virgo and the centaur planet, Chiron. She writes on these and many other topics. Read her complete bio and astrology articles on her Writer Joyce Mason website.

The name The Radical Virgo comes from an article Joyce wrote in The Mountain Astrologer many years ago. It also evolved into a personal nickname.

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